Patents by Inventor Brigitte Schlag

Brigitte Schlag has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 10182588
    Abstract: The invention relates to a UHT system for heat treating temperature-sensitive food products, in particular desserts or dessert-like products, comprising a pre-heating zone and a subsequent high-heating zone. The aim of the invention is to achieve accurate and fast temperature adjustment of the food product leaving the pre-heating zone to the temperature conditions at the inlet of the high-heating zone in a UHT system of the generic type, and at the same time, with an equal dwell time for all partial amounts of the food product, to ensure that the food product is treated in a particularly thermally gentle manner and to keep the mechanical loading of the food product as low as possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: GEA TDS GMBH
    Inventors: Ludger Tacke, Norbert Busch, Deitrich Zimmermann, Hubert Assing, Uwe Schwenzow, Brigitte Schlag
  • Publication number: 20170268825
    Abstract: A manifold with a circular cross-section having a deviation angle of 180 degrees for a tube bundle heat exchanger for large product pressures has a first and second flange on each inlet and outlet. The manifold has two manifold halves respectively made of a single piece, and each half comprises a joining point on an end facing away from a flange. The manifold halves are connected together on the associated joining point. Extension of the passage cross-section of each manifold half is formed by rotationally symmetrical through openings, from which at least one of the flanges and at least one of the joining points extends in the respective coaxial arrangement on rotational axes. First and second axes of through openings of the first manifold halves and third and fourth axes of through openings of the second manifold halves extend on a common plane representing a meridian plane for each flange.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2015
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Applicant: GEA TDS GMBH
    Inventors: Brigitte Schlag, Uwe Schwenzow, Ulrich Rolle, Dietrich Zimmermann, Markus Grimm, Matthias Terlinde, Wolfgang Jäckering
  • Publication number: 20160106139
    Abstract: The invention relates to a UHT system for heat treating temperature-sensitive food products, in particular desserts or dessert-like products, comprising a pre-heating zone and a subsequent high-heating zone. The aim of the invention is to achieve accurate and fast temperature adjustment of the food product leaving the pre-heating zone to the temperature conditions at the inlet of the high-heating zone in a UHT system of the generic type, and at the same time, with an equal dwell time for all partial amounts of the food product, to ensure that the food product is treated in a particularly thermally gentle manner and to keep the mechanical loading of the food product as low as possible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2015
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Inventors: Ludger Tacke, Norbert Busch, Deitrich Zimmermann, Hubert Assing, Uwe Schwenzow, Brigitte Schlag
  • Patent number: 9253999
    Abstract: The invention relates to a UHT system for heat treating temperature-sensitive food products, in particular desserts or dessert-like products, comprising a pre-heating zone and a subsequent high-heating zone. The aim of the invention is to achieve accurate and fast temperature adjustment of the food product leaving the pre-heating zone to the temperature conditions at the inlet of the high-heating zone in a UHT system of the generic type, and at the same time, with an equal dwell time for all partial amounts of the food product, to ensure that the food product is treated in a particularly thermally gentle manner and to keep the mechanical loading of the food product as low as possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: GEA TDS GmbH
    Inventors: Ludger Tacke, Norbert Busch, Deitrich Zimmermann, Hubert Assing, Uwe Schwenzow, Brigitte Schlag
  • Patent number: 9127893
    Abstract: The present invention is related to a device for influencing the flow in the region of a tube support plate (700, 800) of a tube bundle heat exchanger (100), for the food and beverage industry in particular. A displacement body (10, 11) is provided with a shank part (10c, 11c) which extends in the direction of its axis of symmetry (S) and which, at its end distal to the displacement body (10, 11) is fixedly connected to a connection bend (1000) or connection fitting (1100; 1200) which follows the exchanger flange (500; 1100e) or the connecting piece (800d).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: GEA TDS GmbH
    Inventors: Dietrich Zimmerman, Brigitte Schlag, Marcus Guenther, Norbert Busch
  • Publication number: 20120276266
    Abstract: The invention relates to a UHT system for heat treating temperature-sensitive food products, in particular desserts or dessert-like products, comprising a pre-heating zone and a subsequent high-heating zone. The aim of the invention is to achieve accurate and fast temperature adjustment of the food product leaving the pre-heating zone to the temperature conditions at the inlet of the high-heating zone in a UHT system of the generic type, and at the same time, with an equal dwell time for all partial amounts of the food product, to ensure that the food product is treated in a particularly thermally gentle manner and to keep the mechanical loading of the food product as low as possible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2010
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Applicant: GEA TDS GMBH
    Inventors: Ludger Tacke, Norbert Busch, Deitrich Zimmermann, Hubert Assing, Uwe Schwenzow, Brigitte Schlag
  • Publication number: 20090205813
    Abstract: The present invention is related to a device for influencing the flow in the region of a tube support plate (700, 800) of a tube bundle heat exchanger (100), for the food and beverage industry in particular. A displacement body (10, 11) is provided with a shank part (10c, 11c) which extends in the direction of its axis of symmetry (S) and which, at its end distal to the displacement body (10, 11) is fixedly connected to a connection bend (1000) or connection fitting (1100; 1200) which follows the exchanger flange (500; 1100e) or the connecting piece (800d).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2006
    Publication date: August 20, 2009
    Applicant: TUCHENHAGEN DAIRY SYSTEMS GMBH
    Inventors: Dietrich Zimmerman, Brigitte Schlag, Marcus Guenther, Norbert Busch